Undeterred Sony, according to a Phone Arenareport, will be releasing an Android superphone of its own. The phone is expected to be a large screen design dubbed "Yuga". Some sources say the 1080p display will be 6-inches (making it more of a phone-cum-tablet than a pure phone); others expect it to be a 5-inch 1080p unit.

Most sources point to it packing a quad-core Snapdragon 4 chip from Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM), possibly the APQ8064, paired with 2 GB of DRAM. It is expected to run Android Jelly Bean v1 (4.1.1) out of the box, with an upgraded to the second major version of Jelly Bean (v2) on the horizon.

Of course to get in that discussion Sony will have to beat out other potential challengers like the Droid DNA from HTC Corp. (TPE:2498), which is expected to be the flagship phone on America's largest carrier, Verizon Wireless.

In the face of all the nasty haters on here I wish Sony well and I am commonly known as an Apple user (in reality I am pretty open minded to any platform).

Sony are historically a great, innovative company and anybody with an interest in technology and progress have a LOT to thank them for. To deny that they changed all of our lives with their products says more about the ignorance of the proclaimer than Sony.

I also respect them for original design and this is the main problem that I have with Samsung who really are just a "Monkey see, Monkey do" outfit that does not deserve to be outselling LG, HTC, Nokia or Sony in my opinion who at least embrace daring design, whether or not it's to the individual taste is irrelevant.

Well, yeah since they didn't invent any of the technologies behind these things, they are just the cheapest manufacturer and therefore the biggest name.

Toshiba are the inventors of NAND memory.

The patents for OLED are held by a collaboration of American, European and Japanese firms.

The designs for every single one of Samsung's processor cores belong to a British firm.

If anybody had bothered to check up on the hype and scratched the surface they would realise that Samsung's technologies are all in volume manufacturing. It's what they do. It's the reason that they are cheapest.

I didn't see him claim they invented any of these things. Since when does some one have to be an inverter to be an innovator? So I guess Thomas Edision and Henry Ford were not innovators? Samsung excels for there mas-production capabilities, yes, but also because they make high quality components. Cheap components do an OEM absolutely no good if they are not reliable.